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The effects of memory

For example i have 1 pc with 512mb ram an another with 1024mb ram. How is the memory helps the system in performance both of this pc requires to perform a task to encode files.. to burn to vcd using nero.

The speed of the memory might help, but the quanity will probably not. I have 512MB in my system at home and it burns just about the same as another system I have that only has 256MB of ram. (With Nero and same cd burner)

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Can i say to speed up any application process like burning CDs etc a faster CPU would help, for memory intensive applications like video encoding or multi-tasking more memory would help?

For example a application took about 100mb of memory from the system to perform a task on both system assuming same specification same clockspeed. Only difference in memory 1 with 512MB another with 1024MB which one would complete the task first?

Can i say to speed up any application process like burning CDs etc a faster CPU would help, for memory intensive applications like video encoding or multi-tasking more memory would help?

Generally, burning CDs will depend on the capabilities of the CD drive and media that you are using.

Multitasking uses more memory, so you can go to the maximum that the OS will support/use, in theory.

As a rough "rule of thumb", this is what you should be looking for:

Win 98 - 256Mb
Win98SE -384Mb
Win Me - 512Mb

The Windows 9x/Me operating systems are not stable above 512Mb

Windows XP and 2K are quite happy with 1Gb or more.

Processor and motherboard speed are also influential, as is the speed of the RAM (as opposed to quantity) For example, games tend to work much better with faster memory.

You need to be careful when selecting a motherboard, particularly some of the cheaper ones, as you will probably find that although they will support PC3200 RAM, they probably only handle 512Mb of it, whereas the same board will probably take 2Gb of PC2100.

For all practical purposes, once you have a processor running at 2GHz with 512Mb of PC2700, you don't really notice the difference

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